The BBC seem very confident that today will feature mostly sunny spells, but also a few hours of pure sunshine. The Met Office are rather more pessimistic, and say there will be many random hours during the day with no sunshine at all, and only pure sunshine in the last two hours before sunset. Both forecasters agree it will be a hot day with the temperature reaching 28° C.Tomorrow could be very sunny with the temperature reaching 29° C (Met Office) or 30° C (BBC).
  Yesterday was a strangely satisfying day despite not doing a few things I thought I might do, like go for a walk in the sunshine, and ultimately only doing two things of any great value. Oh well, at least the food was good.

  One thing I did was a bit of photography, but it was very simple stuff, and all done without leaving my bedroom - which included the photo editing on my PC. It all started when I showed the selfie of me wearing a 1997 Catford Beer Festival t-shirt. I wondered how many other beer festival t-shirts had survived. They were all very rarely used these days, and right at the back of all my other t-shirts.
   Shrinking the pictures to show as a 4 x 4 matrix means the details are none too clear, but these are the surviving t-shirts. It is possible, maybe probable, that these are the only Catford beer festival t-shirts I ever bought, but I can't be certain of it. In the top left is the 1997 t-shirt. It has probably been washed with black t-shirts too often, and looks a bit grey. There are also small holes in the armpit region.

  Top right is the 1997 t-shirt. It is still brilliantly white, the logo on the front has not faded, and it is in near new condition. Bottom left is the 2004 t-shirt. It is also perfectly (or near perfect) white, but the screen printing does have some feint areas. It might have been like that from new. I think it is this one that also has a couple of small holes in the armpit region. Bottom right is the 2006 t-shirt. It is in very good condition, although the logo is not as bold as the 1997 t-shirt.

  What I thought was my main achievement for yesterday was to do a bit of laundry. I didn't exactly rush to get it done, and it wasn't until just gone 1pm before I got it on the line to dry.
   It dried a lot faster than expected, and it was ready to bring in, all warm and dry, around 4pm. There was still hours of warm sunshine to go, and I thought "why not".......?
  I did another wash of whites and blues (let's pretend the greenish blue underpants on the right are actually blue !). I think I waited until 8pm, when Star Trek: Voyager was finishing on TV before I brought this second lot of washing in. It had missed the best of the sun, and the hand towel did have a small, very slightly, damp area, but easily dried overnight hanging on the banister rail.

  I think I have now described just about everything I did yesterday except for one thing - eating. I'm sure I must have done other little things because I don't recall feeling bored at any time. Actually......I just remembered I did do a fair bit of washing up - mainly the glasses from Thursday's beer session, but there was some cutlery as well.

   Eating: My breakfast, and I mentioned yesterday, was the Singapore style rice from my Chinese takeaway order the previous night. I had a slightly early lunch of leftover BBQ spare ribs. There was only 4 of them, and there is very little meat on them, so it was quite a light lunch. I had a slightly larger very much later lunch at about 3pm. it was a small plate of oven chips. I saw the bag in the freezer while taking a frozen glass out for a cold drink, and suddenly I had this strong desire for chips.

  After all I had eaten earlier, I thought a very light dinner might be good. The lightest I could think of was a tub of low calorie. and low(ish) sugar ice cream. I think there are plenty of things that could have been more satisfying, but it was very nice, and in a way it was quite small - once it had melted and all the air blown into it had escaped, it was like half a glass of milk.

  There was one final thing I did before going to bed, but I can't seem to recall if I did during the final commercial break or after Voyager had finished my TV viewing for the day. It was to bring in my second lot of laundry. It was still very hot in my bedroom, but as 9pm approached I could feel the air outside was getting just a little cooler. I closed the window before I closed the curtains (while it was still almost daylight outside), but left the small fan on when I got onto my bed (but not in my bed).

  I expected to read for quite a long time, but I barely read a couple of pages before I put the book down and turned out the light. I think I may have been asleep before it was dark outside (although it must have been fairly dusky). On the whole, I seemed to sleep well during the night. I awoke a couple of times for a pee, and there was one occasion when I seemed to stay awake for 10 to 20 minutes. I finally woke up, and got up rather early this morning.

  I remember odd bits of dream, but none, except for one short sequence is worth describing because they are just tiny fragments of dream. The only slightly longer bit of dream, but probably no more than 3 or 4 minutes, involved time travel ! Instead of a Dr Who style TARDIS, it was a lift car. The "floor diagram" on the left controller was unusually sideways instead of up and down. I wanted to go down a floor, but the left only went up. It was probably some sort of trans-dimensional voodoo that after getting to the top it's next stop was the bottom - it was like the lift shaft was a loop.

  There were two oddly marked "floors" on the controller. I asked a fellow lift passenger what they were, and he replied "ah, you must be from the future" and went on to say that the two strange floors were actually one and two years ago. I can't remember my reaction, but I think it was along the lines of that it sounded like a useful idea. Oddly enough, it wasn't until after I had woken up that I made comparisons to Dr Who's TARDIS - not that there any similarity beyond, at least from the outside, they were similar sized boxes.

  In one respect, yesterday was a bit of an experiment. I had mostly eaten stuff that could be contentious, but my faith in my own hoped for theories was rewarded when I checked my blood glucose this morning. 8.7mmol/l is not far off my typical monthly average, and good enough, although maybe if I had not eaten the chips I could have got a lower reading. If I had had a shish kebab with salad instead of ice cream it would have been lower, maybe even under 8.0mmol/l, but as I said, it was good enough.

  There are a few things I could or should do today. One is to finally get to Tesco, but only if I feel I have the time. I think the main aim today is a long walk, up and over the hill, to Manor House Gardens in Lee. They are holding a fun day there, and there is a music stage. I have a strong suspicion that most users of it will be of no interest, or even of strong negative interest, but the Entourage Band are usually passable, although it sometimes depends on Dik not trying to experiment with his pedals and such. He should leave that to the rehearsal studio ! They are on at 2.40pm, and I expect they will be shocked to see me - provided I can find the energy to climb to the top of the hill, and own the other side (and, of course) I have to do the same going home again !